ardupilot / plotjuggler-apbin-plugins

ArduPilot Dataflash plugin for Plotjuggler

plotjuggler-apbin-plugins

This repository contains ArduPilot Dataflash plugin for PlotJuggler.

Install PlotJuggler

To build any plugin for PlotJuggler, PlotJuggler must be installed on your system. For detailled instructions on how to install PlotJuggler please have a look at the Installation section of the PlotJuggler repository.

If you have ROS installed, you can install PlotJuggler using:

sudo apt install ros-$ROS_DISTRO-plotjuggler-ros

Install plotjuggler-apbin-plugin

The installation of the plotjuggler-apbin-plugin is straightforward.

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/khancyr/plotjuggler-apbin-plugins
   

2. Install the dependencies:
   The plugin uses Qt as dependency. Since PlotJuggler also depends on Qt, chances are high that you already have it installed. On Ubuntu Qt can be installed with:

   sudo apt -y install qtbase5-dev libqt5svg5-dev
   

3. Compile using cmake:

   mkdir build; cd build
   cmake ..
   make
   sudo make install
   

If you run sudo make install the plugin gets installed to /usr/local/bin/.
Remember that PlotJuggler needs to find the plugin files at startup. Therefore make sure that the folder containing the plugin files is added to PlotJuggler in the settings. Check App->Preferences->Plugins in PlotJuggler to learn more.

Configuration

If you want the units to be displayed in PlotJuggler, you need to edit dataload_apbin.cpp and activate #define LABEL_WITH_UNIT.
Be carefull:
This is not a nice solution because the units are simply appended to the field names. This renders your already created visualization layouts unusable. It would be a better solution if PlotJuggler supported unit handling directly.